Medical Textiles is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors in the technical textile market. Medical Textiles are the products and constructions used for medical and biological applications and are used primarily for first aid, clinical and hygienic purposes. It consists of all those textile materials used in health and hygienic applications in both consumer and medical markets.
For Medical Textiles the main requirement of the textile material is bio-receptivity and bio-compatibility at the application site in human beings. Eg: antimicrobial sutures based on nylon and polypropylene mono filaments. Surgeons wear, wound dressings, bandages, artificial ligaments, sutures, artificial liver/kidney/lungs, nappies, sanitary towels, vascular grafts/heart valves, artificial joints/bones, eye contact lenses and artificial cornea and the like are some of the examples of medical textiles
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Fibre Types used in Medical textiles for extracorporeal devices are as follows:
1. Hollow polyester fibre, hollow viscose used to create artificial kidney for removal of waste products from patient s blood.
2. Hollow viscose used to create artificial liver to separate and dispose of patients' plasma and supply fresh plasma.
3. Hollow polypropylene fiber, hollow silicone membrane as mechanical lung to remove carbon dioxide from patients' blood and supply fresh oxygen.
Asia being the chief producer and consumer of Technical Textiles. The consumption of Medical Textiles worldwide was 1.5 million tons in 2000 and is growing at an annual rate of 4.6%. The Indian market size of medical textiles was estimated to be INR 14.8 billion in 2003-04 and is expected to grow to INR 23.3 billion by 2007-08. Market is expected to grow by 8% p.a. Technical Textiles is the fastest growing branch of textile industries worldwide with bright prospects. The total global sale of Technical Textiles in 1995 was US bn. It is estimated to be US bn in 2005 and is expected to reach US6 bn by 2010.
Medical Textiles are Growing by Leaps and Bounds
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